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Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleComparison between Financial Ratios Analysis and Balanced ScorecardKhalad M.S. Alrafadi, Mazila Md-YusufFinancial ratios have long been used as a tool to evaluate the overall financial performance of a company. However, in early 1990s, a new method called Balanced Scorecard has been introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton to evaluate the overall controlling of a company. Problem statement: To the best of my knowledge at present there are no letrature review … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 20 Feb 2012 · 15,338 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsTOMATO PROCESSING FIRMS’ MANAGEMENT: A COMPARATIVE APPLICATION OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ANALYSESMattia Iotti, Giuseppe BonazziIn Italy, the territory that includes the Emilia-Romagna region, the southern areas of Lombardia and some of Piemonte’s territory is a center of national importance for tomato production and transformation. The processing firms operating in this area are characterized by significant investments in fixed assets and working capital. The article analyzes the annual account data of a sample of firms, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 7 · 28 Apr 2014 · 7,050 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractINTEREST COVERAGE RATIOS (ICRs) AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: APPLICATION TO FIRMS WITH BOVINE DAIRY LIVESTOCKGiuseppe Bonazzi, Mattia IottiAgricultural firms with bovine dairy livestock are characterized by high investments in capital equipment and this is determined by the biological cycle of production, which requires large investments in land, facilities and bovine herd. These large investments require funding from equity capital or debt capital, which generates financial costs. Therefore, it is necessary to assess not only the profitability of … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 15 Oct 2014 · 7,652 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE GREEK BANKING SECTOR ADDRESSING THE PROFITABILITY QUESTIONVassilis Chouliaras, Athianos StergiosThe wave of mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions which was observed in the United States and Europe in the 1980s and 1990s seems to have affected the Greek banking market by the end of the 1990s. The result was the emergence of new significant players in the market. Despite the fact that scale economies should lead to the improvement … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 20 Jun 2013 · 7,223 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRobust Logistic Regression to Static Geometric Representation of RatiosAlireza Bahiraie, Noor Akma Ibrahim, A.K.M. Azhar, Ismail Bin MohdProblem statement: Some methodological problems concerning financial ratios such as non-proportionality, non-asymetricity, non-salacity were solved in this study and we presented a complementary technique for empirical analysis of financial ratios and bankruptcy risk. This new method would be a general methodological guideline associated with financial data and bankruptcy risk. Approach: We proposed the use of a new measure of risk, … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2009 · 8,216 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOn the Predictability of Risk Box Approach by Genetic Programming Method for Bankruptcy PredictionAlireza Bahiraie, Noor Akma bt Ibrahim, A. K.M. AzharProblem statement: Theoretical based data representation is an important tool for model selection and interpretations in bankruptcy analysis since the numerical representation are much less transparent. Some methodological problems concerning financial ratios such as non-proportionality, non-asymetricity, non-scalicity are solved in this study and we presented a complementary technique for empirical analysis of financial ratios and bankruptcy risk. Approach: This study … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2009 · 7,948 accessesView PDF Cite